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Megalochlamys trinervia

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Megalochlamys trinervia (C.B. Clarke) Vollesen [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vollesen, 1988 Schwabea ecbolioides Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Schwabea ecbolioides
  • Megalochlamys trinervia

Flora

Entry for MEGALOCHLAMYS trinervia (C. B. Cl.) Vollesen [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MEGALOCHLAMYS trinervia (C. B. Cl.) Vollesen [family ACANTHACEAE], (1989);
Ecbolium trinervium C. B. Cl. [family ACANTHACEAE], (1900). Fig. 275. [type as above]
Information
Shrub or subshrub, up to 2 m tall; young branches appressed pubescent. Leaf-blades elliptic to ovate, up to 2–7(–9) x 1.3–4(–5.2) cm, subacute to emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base, subglabrous to sparsely puberulous and with sessile orange glands beneath, glabrous to sparsely pubescent above; petiole 3–15(–20) mm long. Spikes 2–12(–17) cm long, with many pairs of flowers; peduncle up to 2(–4.5) cm long; bracts broadly elliptic to suborbicular, the lower 7–12 x 4–10 mm, acute to truncate and with a short mucro at the apex, glandular puberulous and ciliate. Calyx 4–5.5 mm long. Corolla white; tube 5–8(–12) mm long; lobes 10–17 mm long. Capsule 10–14 mm long, 2(–4)-seeded. Seeds densely tuberculate.
Range
S1–3
Altitude range
25–200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Friis & Vollesen 4866; Mooney 7660; Thulin & Warfa SMP147.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Notes
Xarmala (Som.). The record of Ecbolium striatum Balf. f. from southern Somalia in Cuf. Enum.: 964 (1964) refers to Paoli 238 that is M. trinervia.

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